X-Message-Number: 16028 Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 20:10:09 -0600 From: "Raphael T. Haftka" <> Subject: Partners with differing views >Steve Lacher asked about partners who do not share views on cryonics. I like to remind myself that for any view that I hold I can find individuals who are more intelligent and better informed on the subject than I am, and who hold an opposite view. With respect to cryonics, I will probably look for such individuals among cryobiologists. This does not mean that I should change my opinion, because I will still remain in exactly the same situation. However, what it does mean to me is that I should be very tolerant of people holding different views, even if they are very close to me. My wife does not share my interest in cryonics. She finds the topic morbid and my claim that I am right and practically everyone else is wrong bordering on egomania. I just consider myself lucky to have found cryonics. I hope that as we get older and death becomes a bigger presence in our lives she will be willing to contemplate the subject with less revulsion. Raphael (Rafi) Haftka Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics and Engineering University of Florida until 5/10/01 at MS 1110 Sandia National Laboratory Tel: 505-844-9576 PO Box 5800 Fax: 505-845-7442 Albuquerque, NM 87185 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16028